Lí (surname 黎)


Lí is a Chinese surname. It is most common in Central and South China where it is transliterated as Lai or Lye, and is one of the four most common surnames among ethnic Vietnamese people, which in the Vietnamese language is Lê. It is listed 262nd in the Song Dynasty classic Hundred Family Surnames.
In the Vietnamese, some Chinese Li families changed their surname to Vietnamese Hà or Hồ. Later one such family started the Hồ dynasty.

Origin

Around the Yangtze River, any Jiuli people got surname Li as a tribal name. In Ancient China, descendants of Shaohao were surnamed Li on Licheng County. During the Xia Dynasty, descendants of Emperor Yao were surnamed Li in Licheng County.

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